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Marty Bent
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Founder of @TFTC, co-host of Rabbit Hole Recap, Managing Partner at Ten31
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MartyBent 6 months ago
Number go up and people who previously derided us for liking bitcoin suddenly talking nice about it is certainly fun and interesting, but it is all for naught if the network isn't sufficiently monitored and defended by those who would like to see bitcoin succeed as it attempts to keep the creation and facilitation of money separate from the state and central banks. Make sure you pay attention to this stuff. View article →
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MartyBent 6 months ago
What's happening in the UK is very sad, but expected. We've known for decades that the fight for freedom in the Digital Age will only be won with unstoppable software that makes it impossible for tyrants to silence individuals. Honored to be a part of this protocol with you all. Many don't recognize it yet, but Nostr will be the protective layer of free speech in the digital world. Keep pushing forward.
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MartyBent 6 months ago
More and more people are recognizing that a globally distributed neutral monetary network with a native currency that has a hard capped supply of 21,000,000 is something worth owning during the times we live in. View article →
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MartyBent 6 months ago
There’s never been a better time in human history to just do things.
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MartyBent 6 months ago
With the impending arrival of our third child coming up we had to go buy a new car yesterday. The way credit scores work is so wild.
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MartyBent 6 months ago
Tomorrow night is the night my father-in-law cooks his Summer paella. Something I look forward to every year. Vibes will be high.
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MartyBent 7 months ago
Enjoy these days while they last. We'll look back at them with an "Oh, that was cute" type of mentality 15 years from now. View article →
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MartyBent 7 months ago
"As more people make coins - the more normal it gets" "It feels weird at first but then you realize it’s just a way for people to trade the popularity of your posts and profile" This is the end state of the high-velocity trash economy. Over-complicating things that can easily be solved with better money. image
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MartyBent 7 months ago
Flashback to 2010 when you could buy 10 #bitcoin for $3.48. It's crazy to think how far not only bitcoin, but the Internet has come in 15 years. This web interface looks ancient. The pace of innovation from today to 2040 is going to be even more accelerated and bitcoin will be a multi-hundred trillion dollar market.
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MartyBent 7 months ago
You can tell Coinbase has been listening to how people position Nostr and slapping the marketing on Base, which is a DINO version of Nostr. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will truly robust freedom tech. Keep building.
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MartyBent 7 months ago
"When money is no longer scarce, it stops being trusted, it loses value, and it eventually becomes destructive"
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MartyBent 7 months ago
Prediction: The GENIUS Act does way more harm than good for stablecoin markets and turns into a classic case of “be careful what you wish for”.
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MartyBent 7 months ago
The noise of this cycle is going to be stablecoin fervor, real world asset tokenization and a resurgence of "blockchaining all of the things" (especially AI). The signal will be bitcoin maturing as a preferred collateral asset in private credit markets, the continued maturation of the lightning network and other second layers that facilitate payments, bitcoin mining becoming even more integrated with our energy systems and passive DCAs from companies both private and public that convert a portion of their cash flows to bitcoin. There will be a ton of pundits and TradFi suits speaking with the utmost confidence about things they really don't understand from first principles and they will bamboozle many. Keep it simple, stupid. Fiat money is broken. Bitcoin fixes it. Stablecoins are tied to fiat currencies that are being continuously debased. Blockchains only make sense for distributed peer-to-peer cash.
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MartyBent 7 months ago
It’s pretty cool watching a brotherly bond grow stronger in real time. image
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MartyBent 7 months ago
In a world where the political tactics become increasingly discombobulating: - Epstein list is real and then it's not - Whipsawing tarrifs - Accelerating debt expansion - Exponential AI advancements - Cultural degeneracy celebrated Bitcoin is the only reliable anchor to truth.
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MartyBent 7 months ago
Nothing more pure than kids living it up on the beach. image